To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when satanic forces are at work.

Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.

We will help the Hispanic-American people, who have been treated so badly and so unfairly in our nation, we will help them.

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.